Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c56e2b4bf96b909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

10.4 KB
MD5: 0088b9331817268794c4129ef8c26b98 SHA-1: 3a70eddf70fee766997274e651a94d5eb3eefe1d SHA-256: 3c56e2b4bf96b90962e694382825fdb35e8c52f6dfb3f5d029857cdefcd21641
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious document, including obfuscated content and an embedded file. The ClamAV heuristic 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' strongly indicates malicious intent. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common techniques for delivering malware.

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
7b787f36f90733547254c4a3a9e781f1575b00525ce5371aba555adf9747ef13
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x82 13408 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).